The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 34

‘Ah, Princess!’ he said, ‘but for the wicked Queen I fear you would never think of me at all.’

Who acts: Percinet, I, you · What happens: say, fear, not think · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 Princess	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 fear	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 fear	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 Queen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Queen	det
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Queen	amod
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fear	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fear	nsubj
17	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 think	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 think	advmod
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fear	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 think	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Percinet			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	fear	present	I		for the wicked Queen	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not think speech: other	would	you	all	of me	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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